Editing African diaspora (section)

== Music and the African diaspora ==
[[File:ChinnaSmith.jpg|alt=Smith seated playing acoustic guitar|thumb|African-descended peoples have rich musical and dance traditions in the diaspora. [[Jamaica]]'s [[Earl "Chinna" Smith]] is a [[reggae]] performer; the genre includes frequent references to [[Rastafari]], [[pan-Africanism]], and artwork with [[pan-African colors]].]]
Although fragmented and separated by land and water, the African Diaspora maintains connection through the use of music.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Selena Gomez and Rema on Winning the First Ever Afrobeats Award at the 2023 MTV VMAs |url=https://www.zaminna.com/african-diaspora-news/selena-gomez-and-rema-on-winning-the-first-ever-afrobeats-award-at-the-2023-mtv-vmas |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=www.zaminna.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Is All This Because Of The Internet? |url=https://www.zaminna.com/african-diaspora-news/is-all-this-because-of-the-internet |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=www.zaminna.com |language=en}}</ref> This link between the various sects of the African Diaspora is termed by Paul Gilroy as The Black Atlantic.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Black Atlantic|url=https://archive.org/details/blackatlanticmod00gilr_898|url-access=limited|last=Gilroy|first=Paul|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1993|isbn=9780674076068|pages=[https://archive.org/details/blackatlanticmod00gilr_898/page/n4 1]–97}}</ref> The Black Atlantic is possible because black people have a shared history rooted in oppression that is displayed in Black genres such as rap and reggae.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae|last=Veal|first=Michael|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|year=2007|pages=454–467}}</ref> The linkages within the black diaspora formulated through music allows consumers of music and artists to pull from different cultures to combine and create a conglomerate of experiences that reaches across the world.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Campbell |first=Mark |date=December 2012 |title='Other/ed' Kinds of Blackness: An Afrodiasporic Versioning of Black Canada |journal=Southern Journal of Canadian Studies |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=46–65 |url=https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/sjcs/article/view/288 |doi=10.22215/sjcs.v5i1.288 |s2cid=133614797 |doi-access=free }}</ref>